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No. 609,803. Patented Aug. 30, I898. .1. F. GILLILAND.

BOX MAKING MACHINE.

(Application filed Aug. 6, 1597.

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No. 609,803. Patented Aug. 30, I898.

. J. F. GILLILAND.

BOX MAKING MACHINE.

(Application filed Aug. 6, 1897.)

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JAMES F. GILLILAND, OF ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ADRIAN BOX COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

BOX-MAKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,803, dated August 30, 1898.

Application filed August 6, 1897.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JAMES F. GILLILAND, of Adrian, in the county of Lenawee, in the State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Box-Making Machines, of which the following, taken in con nection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to box-making machines in which the end and side pieces of the box are prepared with alternate matching tongues and grooves, which engage at the corners to form the joint.

I-Ieretofore boxes have been formed having the meeting edges provided with tongues and grooves constructed with knives or dies, the side and end pieces being then removed from the machine and then glued and matched together; but my object is to provide a process and means whereby the matching tongues and grooves are out and simultaneously supplied with glue or other adhesive material by allowing it to drop down in line with the travel of the knives or dies, so that they will carry theadhesive material onto and into the tongues and grooves of the parts of the box with each forward movement, so all points are thoroughly supplied with glue during the operation of cutting; and to that end my invention consists in gradually drawing the pieces of wood from which the boxes are con-' structed into engagement with the knives, and in allowing the adhesive material to pass onto the knives just before passing into engagement with the wood, and in the several other new and novel features of construction and operation, and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed.

It is constructed as follows, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a side view of the machine complete, ready for operation. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the machine. Fig. 3 is a front view of the stripper glue cavity, recess, or conduit. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation thereof on line X X, showing the knives in their retracted position. Fig. 5 is a like view of the same thrown forward through the glueconduit and through the box material. Fig. 6 is a plan view of the several pieces necessary to make a box after the knives have op- Serial No. 647,308. (No model.)

erated thereon. Fig. 7 is a view of one of the knives or dies.

' A is a suitable frame or base upon which a reciprocatingly-sliding table is suitably mounted, and Z) is a pitman connecting it with eccentric c, which is mounted upon the shaft 0, which shaft is operated by a belt, power being applied to the wheel B. The sliding table a is provided with a vertical work-table a, upon which the board material b is placed. The knives or dies (Z are suitably secured to the plunger 6, the plunger being suitably mounted in grooves or ways at top and bottom, and is also provided with a pitman 6, connected to an eccentric f, which is mounted upon the shaft f, said shaft being operated by a belt upon the wheel 0. It will thus be observed that the reciprocatory movement imparted to the work-table a gradually draws the box material into engagement with the knives, While the wheel C being much smaller than the wheel B a sharp quick reciprocatory movement is imparted to the knives. It will therefore be observed that when the box material comes into engagement with the knives they chop their way through the material by a succession of blows rather than by forcing their way through with one blow, which tended to chip the box material, so that a tight joint was not always made.

The stripper his suitablymounted, as upon the rods m and springs m, and provided with a suitable conduit 71, through which the knives play as they are rapidly reciprocated.

o is a suitable glue-reservoir, here shown as in the form of a jacketed kettle heated by steam through a pipe 0 let into the space between the jacket and body of the kettle. From this kettle the liquid glue or adhesive material is conducted through a suitable pipe 19 to the top of the slot n, where it then drops, falls, percolates, or drips down onto the pathway of the knives or dies and covers them, and is by them forced onto the tongues and grooves. These knives or dies being covered with glue carry it into the tongues and grooves before each cut, and, making a succession of cuts which gradually penetrate the material, the knives or dies thoroughly cover their edges, so that when. two of the pieces shown in Fig. 6 are brought together the tongues and grooves will rigidly adhere as soon as the glue hardens. The knives or dies are made the exact shape of the tongues and grooves, so that every connecting-surface of the tongues and grooves will be equally covered and thus insure a perfect joint. It will thus be observed that during the operation of the knives upon the boX material a film of glue is placed over the parts out and the several members of the box-body are ready to be swung into position and placed in a suitable form and pressed and held together until the glue sets.

Any suitablereceptacle may be provided to catch the glue or adhesive material which passes through the conduit.

It will be observed that in Figs. 1 and 2 I have shown only one set of knives. In practice I use a series of plungers and knives, so as to cut at one operation or succession of operations all the tongues and grooves of the box.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An improvement in the art of making glue-joints consisting of severing the material bya succession of cuts gradually penetrating the material, and coating the cutting instru ment with an adhesive before each cut, substantially as described.

2. In a box-making machine, reciprocating dies and means for causing them to gradually penetrate the material, combined with means for coating the reciprocating dies with an adhesive during reciprocation, substantially as shown.

3. In a box-making machine, reciprocating tongue-and-groove-cutting dies, and means for causing the dies to reciprocate, combined with means for dropping glue, or other adhesive material upon the outer surfaces of the knives or cutters in their advance to the material,whereby the surfaces of the tongues and grooves are covered with the glue, substantially as shown.

I 4:. In a box-making machine, a series of reciprocating tongue-and-groovecutting dies, combined with means located above the dies for dropping or distributing adhesive material upon the outer surfaces of the knives or cutters in their advance to the material, and a suitable conduit through which the dies reciprocate and into the top of which the adhesive is dropped, substantially as set forth.

5. In aboX-making machine, the stripper it, suitable connecting-rods connected thereto, and springs applied to the ends of the rods, combined with a conduit, the reciprocating tongue-and-groove-cutting dies, and means for supplying the conduit with adhesive material at a point above the dies, whereby the outer surfaces of the dies in their advance to the material are covered with the adhesive, and the adhesive is carried into the tongues and grooves, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 27th day of July, 1897.

JAMES F. GILLILAND.

In presence of GEORGE A. DONNEL, HOWARD P. DENIsoN. 

